Vivi is adding new sounds - not necessarily words, but utterances at least - all the time again. She's adopted her sister's habit of holding any vaguely phone-shaped object to her ear and saying, "Uh-huh... uh-huh... uh-huh..." for some time. Ask her whom she's calling, and she answers, "Boppa, Nonna, Dee Dee" - Grandpa, Grandma, and Julia's preschool teacher, respectively.
Yesterday evening, Juila used a Sesame Street coloring book to teach Vivi how to say (really say) Elmo and Zoe. Vivi pronounces them as "El-muh" and "Oo-zie," then grins happily.
This is cute, but even cuter is Vivi's penchant for saying "Ouch!" whenever you touch her, try to take her clothes off, change her diaper, or otherwise interfere with her bodily integrity. Again, she says it and then grins. She doesn't say anything when she's actually hurt, just starts to cry and smacks anyone who tries to help.
Finally, Vivi also makes a sweet little "num num num" sound when she's pretending to enjoy a meal from her toy kitchen. And she's started to actually fill up her teacups by holding them under the toy kitchen sink's faucet. It's uncanny how she'll hold the cup there for just about as long as she would need to actually fill the cup, if it were under a real faucet. Then she lifts the cup to her lips and goes, "Num num num num."